Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson is a freak folkie who has, with the Moldy Peaches, flirted with rap; Aesop Rock is a densely wordy rapper with an open channel to indie rock audiences (and singer/songwriters like John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats). Both artists can be raw and self-revealing, but from opposite angles: Dawsons acoustic songs tend to be frank, silly, and intimate, while Aesops are knotty as hell, personal demons rendered in aggressively abstract torrents over knocking boom bap and disorienting, swirling samples. Aesops latest project, Hail Mary Mallon, finds him teaming with fellow MC Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz; scant Youtube footage suggests more of the same, if slightly mellowed in tempo and leavened by a sort of bantering MCs humor. Tonight, expect new material from that team-up, solo sets from both Dawson and Aesop, and some collaborations between the two. With Rob Sonic, DJ Wiz. ERIC GRANDY